SW1500

[micaelcorleone]

RS.com Blog:
"Just thought I'd give you a little update, still many liveries to get done this week. The cab is coming along too, update on that soon.

regards
Derek "

[BNSF650]

Update in the BNSF Scheme. Notice the detail on the cab. Nice work Guys

BN_01.jpg

[micaelcorleone]

Nice.
I hope the flashlight works.

[styckx]

This pack is going to be the dark horse of U.S. packs so far (in popularity and sales) I think. Ever since the PP SW1500 dropped this model has had semi persistent following of people dying to have it finished to completion. Not only is that finally happening but along with it a truly epic amount of liveries to go with it.

The renders are better than the PP one we already have by far. The model is represented well.. There is a certain rigid stoic stance the SW1500 emanates in real life and it's captured beautifully in these renders. It stands tall.

[micaelcorleone]

UP - WIP

[styckx]

That is a money shot right there.

[micaelcorleone]

A Western Pacific livery would be nice.

[thecanadianrail]

yes it would be nice but i think they are only going for the "BIG" names that they know about like UP, BNSF, BN, SF, NS, CN. that is basically what railroads we will see from them unless we keep nagging about it just like we did for this loco! NP, WP, CB&Q, GN, SP, D&RGW were just as powerfull in there day as these are today. i am not shure that rs.com even knows that NP, GN, and CB&Q are what made up BN which is a part of BNSF today. or even NS predecesors. but i know for a fact that most of you don't know who CN's main predecesor in western canada was! it was Canadian Northern Railway! the gov decided to combine all of it's gov owned small railways with this large railway to make Canadian National Railway. did you know CN never owned a diesel loco until it was renaimed CN. lol do you get it? (Canadian Northern, Canadian National) Oops got a bit off topic there, oh well a small history lesson never hurt anybody.

[Derek]

Careful what you wish for.
:)

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[BNSF650]

I would like to see Frisco,GN,DRGW,CN,WC,NS,CR and maybe some lease units i think the more paint schemes the better it would sell. They are doing a great Job on this

Cab_01_wip.jpg

[thecanadianrail]

running my pockets dry....again! lol

[Derek]

Did DRGW own any SW1500? I thought they only had 1200s.

regards

Derek

[thecanadianrail]

here are all of the original owners of the SW1500's:

Original owners SW1500sDomestic (US/Export) orders
Railroad Quantity Road numbers Notes
Alton and Southern Railway 18 1500-1517 #1503 now belongs to the Acadiana Railway
Alcoa Terminal Railroad 1 9
Apalachicola Northern Railroad 8 712-719 #717 & 718 now on the
Central Midland Ry in St Louis
Armco Steel 5 701-705
Ashley, Drew and Northern Railroad 1 150 Now on the
Fordyce and Princeton Railroad
Angelina and Neches River Railroad 1 1500
Armco Steel 5 701-705
Belt Railway of Chicago 3 530-532
Burlington Northern Railroad 15 310-324 In service as BNSF 3456-3470
Cambria and Indiana Railroad 2 15, 16
Chattahoochee Valley Railway 1 101
Chicago Short Line Railroad 2 30, 31
General Motors Electro-Motive Division 9 106-114 106-108 to IU 22-23, 25, 109 to IHB 9222, 110-112 to IU 27-29, 107 is first SW1500 built in 6/66, 113 to ?, 114 to ?
Georgia Power 5 1401-1402, 1405, 1503-1504
W.R. Grace Chemical 2 101, 102
Great Northern Railway 10 200-209 To Burlington Northern 300-309, Most now in service with BNSF
Houston Belt and Terminal Railway 6 50-55
Howe Coal 2 1, 2 To Kansas City Southern
Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad 27 9200-9221, 9223-9227 Penn Central Subsidiary company
Illinois Terminal Railroad 7 1509-1515
Indianapolis Union Railway 5 24, 26, 30-32 IU 22-23, 25, 27-29 are former EMD Plant Switchers 106-108, 110-112
Inland Steel 7 119-125
Kansas City Southern Railway 42 1500-1541 In service with KCS
Kentucky and Indiana Terminal Railroad 16 67-83 K&IT 67 is the first production SW1500 7/66, K&IT 83 is the last production SW1500 1/74
Lake Erie, Franklin and Clarion Railroad 2 23, 24
Longview, Portland and Northern Railway 1 130
Louisville and Nashville Railroad 30 5000-5029
Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railway 2 36-37
Minnesota Taconite US Steel 6 949-954
Minnesota Transfer Railway 7 300-306 MT 300 to C&NW 1301
Mississippi Export Railroad 1 64
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad 6 50-55
Missouri Pacific Railroad 4 1518-1521
New Orleans Public Belt Railroad 3 151-153
Patapsco and Back Rivers Railroad 2 160, 161
Penn Central 84 9500-9583
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad 40 1534-1563, 9280-9289 Penn Central Subsidiary
Reading Railroad 21 2750-2770
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad 9 1-8,91
Rock Island Line 10 940-949
Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific Railway 2 500,600
St. Mary’s Railroad 1 503
Sandersville Railroad 2 100,300
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway 46 315-360
Southern Railway 48 2300-2347 2300-2329 Southern, 2330-2331 Interstate, 2332-2335 New Orleans Terminal, 2336-2337 CNO&TP, 2338-2339 Carolina & Northwestern, 2340-2347 Central of Georgia
Southern Pacific Railroad 204 2450-2480, 2493-2510, 2523-2578, 2591-2689
St. Louis Southwestern Railway 36 2481-2492, 2511-2522, 2579-2590 2511-2522 leased from SP
Tennessee Copper 1 108
Tennessee Eastman Corporation
(Eastman Kodak) 1 1
Terminal Railroad Alabama State Docks 2 681,682
Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis 17 1501-1517
Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad 4 303-306 NASA Railroad, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Union Railroad 9 1-9
U S Pipe and Foundry 4 51-54
Vermont Railway 1 501 Was sold to the
Lancaster and Chester Railway
Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. 2 306, 307
Winifrede Railroad 1 13 Currently owned and operated by Big Eagle Railroad as BER 01
Western Pacific Railroad 3 1501-1503 to Union Pacific

[BNSF650]

Did DRGW own any SW1500? I thought they only had 1200s.

regards

Derek

Yea i forgot they had the 1200'S

[styckx]

Cab view is looking awesome. Going to be a nice change of pace for U.S. driving having that long hood to look over.